Taking Farmers Markets to a New Level – The Rise of the CSA

Ever since the fall of 2010, I’ve been shopping down the food chain – buying my food closer and closer to the source. Like most Americans, I started out buying meat and produce from grocery stores like H-E-B (whatever happened to be on sale) and supplementing it with bulk packaged food from Costco or Sam’s Club.

Then I decided I wanted to eat healthier, regardless of the price tag. So I started shopping at Central Market and Whole Foods. I bought all USDA organic meat, fruit and vegetables, and instead of buying twin-packaged giant cereal boxes of Special K, I bought smaller-sized single boxes of Kashi cereal (also owned by the Kellogg Company). Much of my fruit still came from faraway places such as Chile and New Zealand, and although my meat was labeled "organic," that term is loosely and complexly defined by the U.S Department of Agriculture.

Read the rest of this article in the Austin Post.

Greetings from 5-Mile Farms, a hyper-local CSA in Austin, Texas